Adam's First Christmas!

We had a wonderful peaceful Christmas just the three of us in Chicago.  Adam has been going through a bit of a sleep regression but decided to give us an extra 3 hours this morning as a Christmas present :)  We spent the morning drinking coffee, eating breakfast casserole, and opening presents.  Adam wasn't too interested in opening presents this year, which is good because Bailey helped to open all of his presents anyways.  Also, he was definitely more interested in eating the bows then playing with any of his new toys. 

The rest of the day we enjoyed watching Christmas Vacation and listening to Christmas music.  Tom played the ukelele for everyone and Bailey loved all of the extra attention having Tom home. 

Yesterday I decided to make a salt dough ornament of Adam's handprint, however getting a quality handprint proved more difficult than anticipated as all he wanted to do was squeeze the dough. It looks more like a bear claw, haha. So we settled for a footprint, which turned out perfect, but I wasn't really thinking when I cut it out...and it's kind of huge...and looks ridiculous on our tree.  Lol. 

Christmas night we made some homemade pizzas and watched Christmas Vacation again, trying to enjoy every last ounce of Christmas Day! I don't want the holidays to be over!!!

Christmas-y Adventures

Wow, I've been terrible about actually writing anything on the blog except for a few photo descriptions. I'll try to be better, I want to be better this coming year!

A few weeks ago my parents came out to visit for the weekend. Adam warmed up to them a lot faster than a few months ago.  He enjoyed floor time playing with my dad and snuggles with my mom.  We went downtown on Saturday to check out the Christkindlmarket, now an annual tradition for Tom and I and we knew my parents would enjoy it. It was freezing (16 degrees!!) so I bundled up Adam the best I could and wrapped him. He fell asleep soon after we got there and didn't wake up until we went into the warming tent to warm up! We enjoyed some spiced wine and brats while Mom and Dad walked around checking out the different booths.

This past weekend we hosted the 2nd annual Neighbor Holiday Party (3rd if you count Sweatpants NYE of 2011).  I was super excited to hang out because last year I was so so nauseous and exhausted the whole night.  It ended up being kind of a bust because some of our neighbors had to leave early and the others fizzled out soon after (the new neighbors have two little kiddos).  Tom and I enjoyed some downtime, a clean apartment, and lots of yummy snacks the rest of the evening, so I guess it wasn't a complete bust ;)

We also went to the Lincoln Park Zoo Lights this weekend.  We had been once before when we first moved here, but hadn't been back since.  One of my work friends who just had a baby in October invited us so we thought it would be fun to meet up with them and get out of the house.  Well, it coincided with nap time, so it was a little hectic getting out of the house. Adam fell asleep in the car ride there (third time ever he's fallen asleep in the car!).  We spent forever waiting to park and FINALLY were able to meet up with my friend.  We walked around, got some spiced wine, looked for sleeping monkeys, and that about sums it up.  There was some kind of power outage (which is pretty ironic considering ComEd was a sponsor) and half of the lights were out, so that was kind of lame.  We have a plan in place for next year, when Adam will actually enjoy it, and we enjoyed meeting up with my friend, so all in all not a bad trip!

5 Months Old!!!

Seriously.  Time....SLOW DOWN!!!  ;)

• Snuggles his face into my shoulder when I'm carrying him and he is tired
• Rolls from his back to his tummy (and sometimes tummy to back)
• Loves to "dive bomb" with an open mouth at my shoulder or the floor
• Is ticklish in his armpits <3 li="" nbsp="">
• Loves to watch us drink from a glass, and loves to grab the glass, and loves to put his mouth on the glass ;)
• Gnaws Sophie (the giraffe's) face off when he is on his tummy
• Loves to stand
• Kicks a ton
• Likes to sit on my lap at the desk
• Stops whatever he is doing when he sees me trying to take a picture with my phone
• Tries to put EVERYTHING in his mouth
• Likes to "pet" Bailey
• 17 pounds, 1 ounce and 26 1/4 inches long

Pics of the Week: Super fun play dates!

Happy (belated) Thanksgiving!!

I started writing this post several days ago, but, as it turns out, 4.5 month olds are pretty demanding of your time ;)

So I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We definitely enjoyed our holiday, but it went by so fast, as usual.  It was great having Tom home for 4 days in a row.  Adam even got used to it - yesterday morning after he finished nursing he turned his head so far to the right looking for Tom (where Tom sat every morning) that I thought his head was going to fall off ;)

Thursday I made a turkey and everything else came out of a box - don't judge.  I did make a breakfast casserole for us Wednesday night and that lasted the whole weekend. So good and one of my favorite things about a holiday weekend.  Football was on tv all day and there were tons of great cloth diaper deals online (way better than the ones on actual Black Friday). This whole cloth diapering has turned into a bit of an obsession (as if it wasn't already) but now I know what I like and what works well for Adam so I was happy to basically complete our stash on the major cheap.  And I couldn't pass up a few cute cheap holiday diapers.  Hopefully they will get here before Christmas!!!

The rest of the weekend we watched football, ate leftovers and began to decorate for Christmas. We are very much looking forward to our first holiday season with Adam!!!

Wearing his new Nittany Lion hat for the last game of the season. I think it was good luck ;)

This one. Laying next to Adam's toys, refusing to look at the camera.